"I just always loved Yeats, him as a human. He was so passionate and just wrote what he felt."

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Philosophy1911–1995

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— Mark Miravalle

Politics1959

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"A husband and wife ought to continue so long united as they love each other. Any law which should bind them to cohabitation for one moment after the decay of their affection, would be a most intolerab…"

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